Proverbs 17:25
New International Version
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

New Living Translation
Foolish children bring grief to their father and bitterness to the one who gave them birth.

English Standard Version
A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

Berean Standard Bible
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

King James Bible
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

New King James Version
A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.

New American Standard Bible
A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her who gave birth to him.

NASB 1995
A foolish son is a grief to his father And bitterness to her who bore him.

NASB 1977
A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.

Legacy Standard Bible
A foolish son is a vexation to his father And bitterness to her who gave birth to him.

Amplified Bible
A foolish son is a grief and anguish to his father And bitterness to her who gave birth to him.

Christian Standard Bible
A foolish son is grief to his father and bitterness to the one who bore him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A foolish son is grief to his father and bitterness to the one who bore him.

American Standard Version
A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A foolish son angers his father and embitters her that bore him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
A foolish son is a cause of anger to his father, and grief to her that bore him.

Contemporary English Version
Foolish children bring sorrow and pain to their parents.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A foolish son is the anger of the father: and the sorrow of the mother that bore him.

English Revised Version
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A foolish son is a heartache to his father and bitter grief to his mother.

Good News Translation
Foolish children bring grief to their fathers and bitter regrets to their mothers.

International Standard Version
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to his mother.

JPS Tanakh 1917
A foolish son is vexation to his father, And bitterness to her that bore him.

Literal Standard Version
A foolish son [is] a provocation to his father, | And bitterness to her bearing him.

Majority Standard Bible
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

New American Bible
A foolish son is vexation to his father, and bitter sorrow to her who bore him.

NET Bible
A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

New Revised Standard Version
Foolish children are a grief to their father and bitterness to her who bore them.

New Heart English Bible
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Webster's Bible Translation
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

World English Bible
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Young's Literal Translation
A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

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Context
Better a Dry Morsel in Quietness
24Wisdom is the focus of the discerning, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth. 25A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him. 26It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.…

Cross References
Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.

Proverbs 17:21
A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.

Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is his father's ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

Proverbs 29:15
A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.


Treasury of Scripture

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

Proverbs 10:1
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Proverbs 15:20
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

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Verse 25. - This verse is more or less a repetition of ver. 21; Proverbs 10:1; Proverbs 15:20; and comp. Proverbs 19:13. A grief (kaas). The Vulgate and Septuagint translate, "anger." A foolish son provokes the wrath of his father, and is bitterness to her that bare him, "Bitterness" (memer) oesurs nowhere else; mar and marar are common enough.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
A foolish
כְּסִ֑יל (kə·sîl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3684: Stupid fellow, dullard, fool

son
בֵּ֣ן (bên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

brings grief
כַּ֣עַס (ka·‘as)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3708: Vexation, anger

to his father
לְ֭אָבִיו (lə·’ā·ḇîw)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

and bitterness
וּ֝מֶ֗מֶר (ū·me·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4470: Bitterness

to her who bore him.
לְיוֹלַדְתּֽוֹ׃ (lə·yō·w·laḏ·tōw)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage


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